(21. Oktober 2013) Meanwhile, the $40 million contract awarded to the Israeli arms manufacturer generated controversies early in the year. It was indicated that Elbit‘s Wise Intelligence telecommunications surveillance system will monitor all Nigerian Internet communications; this was gathered to have “sparked national outrage, making many Nigerians apprehensive that the country might be sliding back to dictatorship.” (..)
It was also gathered that the contract is about the third major Israeli sale of surveillance systems to Nigeria, after a 2006 Aeronautics Defense Systems drone sale and 2008 contracts with NICE Systems for video surveillance.